Circulation: Undergrads may check out 15 items, graduate students may check out 30. Fines are .20 per day. Books may be renewed two times in person or over the phone. The loan period for books is 21 days.
Copier: Copies are .10 each for black & white and $1.00 for color.
Layout of the library-
Downstairs: Reference
Exhibition Catalogs
Upstairs: Call #’s P-Z
Reserves
Newspapers
Bound Periodicals
New Periodicals
Art Index & BHA
A/V center
New Books
Call #’s A-N
Oversize
Stock & Auction Catalogs
Slide Collection
Reference and reserve materials must be used in the library. The binder at the circulation desk contains a list of all reserve materials organized by instructor, call number, title, and author.
Online resources: (delicious.com/mcalibrary)
May be used anywhere in the network. There is a list of periodicals available in the library on the wall behind the workstations. You may also go to Rhodes, CBU, UM, etc. to get copies of articles you find in the databases. CSA databases – www.csa.com un=mca3 pw=mca34 ARTbibliographies Modern (1974-current) - The coverage of ABM is wide-ranging and includes performance art and installation works, video art, computer and electronic art, body art, graffiti, artists' books, theatre arts, conservation, crafts, ceramic and glass art, ethnic arts, graphic and museum design, fashion, and calligraphy, as well as traditional media including illustration, painting, printmaking, sculpture, and drawing. DAAI: Design and Applied Arts Index (1973-current) - Covers designers, craftspeople, studios, workshops, and firms Galegroup databases – infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/tel_a_memca pw=elvis General OneFile (1980- current) – Some full-text. Multidisiplinary index to news and periodical articles. Includes business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images. Updated daily. Academic OneFile (1980-current) – Same as above but contains peer-reviewed materials. Expanded Academic (1980-current) – Some full-text. Provides citations, abstracts, and full-text articles in many disciplines including: Astronomy, Religion, Law, History, Psychology, Humanities, Current Events, Sociology, Communications and General Sciences. More scholarly than InfoTrac Educator's Reference Complete (1980–current) - Educator's Reference Complete is a selection of more than 450 full-text academic journals, hundreds of full-text reports, and many premier reference sources. Included content focuses on educational principles, child development and psychology, and best practices in education. Majority of the full-text titles included are also found in the ERIC database. Art Full Text - http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com/hww/jumpstart.jhtml?prod=ARTFT
This is the Art Index online format back to 1984. It includes 152 full-text titles and covers Advertising Art, Antiques, Archaeology, Architecture and Architectural History, Art History, Computers in Art, Crafts, Decorative Arts, Fashion Design, Folk Art, Graphic Arts, Industrial Design, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Motion Pictures, Museology, Non-Western Art, Painting, Photography, Pottery, Sculpture, Television, Textiles, and Video Current ERIC trial available. JSTOR – www.jstor.org
JSTOR is journal archive that provides online access to 275 electronic versions of journals from the origination of the publication. JSTOR does not contain current issues and there is a 1-5 year gap between the current issue and JSTOR coverage. If you have trouble printing from a Mac, you will need to click on ‘Set printing preferences’ and then select ‘Economy PDF’. ARTstor – www.artstor.org
ARTstor is a digital library of approximately 550,000 high quality images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences. While on campus you will see a link in the top right corner that says ‘Enter the ARTstor digital library. Go.’ Click there to access ARTstor. You may create an ARTstor login that will allow off-campus access. ERIC - http://www.eric.ed.gov/ - ERIC provides unlimited access to more than 1.3 million bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials, with hundreds of new records added multiple times per week. If available, links to full text are included.
Library Information
Hours: M-Th 8:30-8
F 8:30-5
Sat 10-1
Sun 1-4
Phone: 901.272.5131
Email: library@mca.edu
Website: http://www.mca.edu/academicslibrary
Circulation: Undergrads may check out 15 items, graduate students may check out 30. Fines are .20 per day. Books may be renewed two times in person or over the phone. The loan period for books is 21 days.
Copier: Copies are .10 each for black & white and $1.00 for color.
Layout of the library-
Reference and reserve materials must be used in the library. The binder at the circulation desk contains a list of all reserve materials organized by instructor, call number, title, and author.
Online resources: (delicious.com/mcalibrary)
May be used anywhere in the network. There is a list of periodicals available in the library on the wall behind the workstations. You may also go to Rhodes, CBU, UM, etc. to get copies of articles you find in the databases.
CSA databases – www.csa.com un=mca3 pw=mca34
ARTbibliographies Modern (1974-current) - The coverage of ABM is wide-ranging and includes performance art and installation works, video art, computer and electronic art, body art, graffiti, artists' books, theatre arts, conservation, crafts, ceramic and glass art, ethnic arts, graphic and museum design, fashion, and calligraphy, as well as traditional media including illustration, painting, printmaking, sculpture, and drawing.
DAAI: Design and Applied Arts Index (1973-current) - Covers designers, craftspeople, studios, workshops, and firms
Galegroup databases – infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/tel_a_memca pw=elvis
General OneFile (1980- current) – Some full-text. Multidisiplinary index to news and periodical articles. Includes business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images. Updated daily.
Academic OneFile (1980-current) – Same as above but contains peer-reviewed materials.
Expanded Academic (1980-current) – Some full-text. Provides citations, abstracts, and full-text articles in many disciplines including: Astronomy, Religion, Law, History, Psychology, Humanities, Current Events, Sociology, Communications and General Sciences. More scholarly than InfoTrac
Educator's Reference Complete (1980–current) - Educator's Reference Complete is a selection of more than 450 full-text academic journals, hundreds of full-text reports, and many premier reference sources. Included content focuses on educational principles, child development and psychology, and best practices in education. Majority of the full-text titles included are also found in the ERIC database.
Art Full Text - http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com/hww/jumpstart.jhtml?prod=ARTFT
This is the Art Index online format back to 1984. It includes 152 full-text titles and covers Advertising Art, Antiques, Archaeology, Architecture and Architectural History, Art History, Computers in Art, Crafts, Decorative Arts, Fashion Design, Folk Art, Graphic Arts, Industrial Design, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Motion Pictures, Museology, Non-Western Art, Painting, Photography, Pottery, Sculpture, Television, Textiles, and Video
Current ERIC trial available.
JSTOR – www.jstor.org
JSTOR is journal archive that provides online access to 275 electronic versions of journals from the origination of the publication. JSTOR does not contain current issues and there is a 1-5 year gap between the current issue and JSTOR coverage. If you have trouble printing from a Mac, you will need to click on ‘Set printing preferences’ and then select ‘Economy PDF’.
ARTstor – www.artstor.org
ARTstor is a digital library of approximately 550,000 high quality images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences. While on campus you will see a link in the top right corner that says ‘Enter the ARTstor digital library. Go.’ Click there to access ARTstor. You may create an ARTstor login that will allow off-campus access.
ERIC - http://www.eric.ed.gov/ - ERIC provides unlimited access to more than 1.3 million bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials, with hundreds of new records added multiple times per week. If available, links to full text are included.
All MCA students have reciprocal borrowing privileges at Rhodes, CBU, and LeMoyne-Owen. All residents of Shelby County can borrow books from the public library and the University of Memphis library is open to everyone. Resources at other libraries:
Rhodes: BHA (Bibliography of the History of Art) Available online 1972-present.
Rhodes catalog: http://www.rhodes.edu/barret/default.asp
Online full-text: http://mx3pp3uy8y.search.serialssolutions.com/
U of M catalog: http://exlibris.memphis.edu/resource/tomcat.html
Online full-text: http://exlibris.memphis.edu/resource/eperiodicals.html
CBU catalog: http://www.cbu.edu/library/
Memphis Public Library: www.memphislibrary.com
Lemoyne-Owen: http://www.loc.edu/library/index.htm
Creating bibliographies:
http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/ - This website contains examples of Chicago, MLA, and APA citation styles.